George Will | A credit to the nation's heart, not its head

1:48 AM,
Oct. 3, 2012

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George Will, The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - In baseball, a game without a clock, each player on a team that is behind by a bunch of runs is advised to "stay within yourself." That baseball lingo means: Do not try to do too much. Instead, get 'em on, get 'em over, get 'em in. There are no five-run home runs. Small, incremental gains matter because the game goes on until someone makes the 27th out. Until then, there is hope.

Unfortunately for Mitt Romney, presidential politics is, like football, a game with a clock, one with just five weeks of ticks remaining. In football, a team far behind late in the game must take gambles. Romney is ...